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Bezig met laden... Jack the Ripper's Secret Confession: The Hidden Testimony of Britain's First Serial Killerdoor David Monaghan, Nigel Cawthorne
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Puts forth the theory that Jack the Ripper was a textile millionaire by the name of Henry Spencer Ashbee, who, under the pseudonym "Walter," wrote a troubling book of violent sex fantasies around the turn of the century. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Perhaps, somewhere in the eleven volume tome, more compelling evidence exists. The excerpts the authors chose to publish contain some of the most shocking and heinous sexual content many readers will ever encounter. Walter’s diary ranges in style from “letters to Penthouse” to detailed descriptions of criminal sexual deviance. That Walter is depraved is not in doubt; that Walter is Jack the Ripper is.
One thing the book does manage to convey is the shame of a social structure that allows such horrid crimes to occur. That so many are complicit in Walter’s licentiousness is hard to believe. That authorities ignore the plight of sexually enslaved women is disgraceful.
I love a good true crime where an author reveals the criminal through a series of facts tied together with a touch of innuendo and a few inferences. Unfortunately, in this book the innuendo is nothing more than lurid exposition and inferences giant leaps of faith.
Monaghan and Cawthorne fall far short of convincing me Walter is Jack the Ripper. For me, Jack the Ripper's Secret Confession was nothing more than a dirty book.